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| Title | Hesitation disfluencies after the clause marker ATT ‘that’ in Swedish |
| Author/s | Merle Horne, Johan Frid, Mikael Roll |
| Department/s |
Linguistics and Phonetics
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| Full-text | Available as PDF |
| Journal title | Working Papers |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Document type | Working paper |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Department of Linguistics, Lund University |
| Status | published |
| Quality controlled | yes |
| Editor | Jan-Olof Svantesson |
| Abstract English | This study aims att developing a methodology for investigating the relationship between the fluent and disfluent productions of the Swedish conjunction ATT ‘that’ and the complexity of speech fragments following them. A study of the syntactic structure of the speech fragments following ATT and their relation to the pragmatic structure of the discourse, in particular the fragments’ role as regards the topic structure of the discourse, was made using data from one speaker. Syntactic word order patterns reveal that the pragmatic coherence between two clauses decreases with the use of disfluent ATT as compared to fluent ATT. Disfluent ATT tends to signal a new topic rather than topic continuation, and an elaboration rather than clarification, where clarification is more strongly bound to the preceding utterance. It was observed that even emotional factors correlate with to the production of disfluent ATT. Before empathetic quotations – fragments that imply recognition or imagination of other’s emotions – disfluent ATT may signal a change in the deictic centre as compared to the preceding discourse. A number of observations regarding the prosodic correlates of disfluent ATT were also made. Disfluent ATT is almost always followed by a clear prosodic boundary. In all cases but one, this boundary was marked by a silent pause, in some cases including inhalation. It was also observed that the only filled pause that occurred after a disfluent ATT was before a fragment introducing a new topic. |
| Subject |
Languages and Literatures |
| Keywords | spontaneous speech, disfluency, syntactic complexity, Swedish |
| ISBN/ISSN/Other |
ISSN: 0280-526X |
| Project | The role of function words in spontaneous speech processing |
| Funder |
Vinnova |
| References | References |
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